And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Despair Quotes
There is no logical explanation for despair. You can no more reason yourself into cheerfulness than you can reason yourself an extra six inches in height. You can only be better prepared.
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Damn, damn and double damn. Damn it backwards into a narrow space, with a sideorder of hellfire, and twice on a Sunday. DAAAAAAAMN.
Despair itself, if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. (“Hamlet”)
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
